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Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications
Emergency imaging in pregnancy and puerperium poses unique challenges both for clinicians and radiologists, requiring timely and accurate diagnosis. Delay in treatment may result in poor outcomes for both the patient and the foetus. Pregnant and puerperal patients may present in the emergency settin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10528125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761275 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13182909 |
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author | Masselli, Gabriele Bonito, Giacomo Gigli, Silvia Ricci, Paolo |
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description | Emergency imaging in pregnancy and puerperium poses unique challenges both for clinicians and radiologists, requiring timely and accurate diagnosis. Delay in treatment may result in poor outcomes for both the patient and the foetus. Pregnant and puerperal patients may present in the emergency setting with acute abdominopelvic pain for various complications that can be broadly classified into obstetric and non-obstetric related diseases. Ultrasonography (US) is the primary diagnostic imaging test; however, it may be limited due to the patient’s body habitus and the overlapping of bowel loops. Computed tomography (CT) carries exposure to ionising radiation to the foetus, but may be necessary in selected cases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable complement to US in the determination of the etiology of acute abdominal pain and can be used in most settings, allowing for the identification of a broad spectrum of pathologies with a limited protocol of sequences. In this second section, we review the common non-obstetric causes for acute abdominopelvic pain in pregnancy and post partum, offering a practical approach for diagnosis and pointing out the role of imaging methods (US, MRI, CT) with the respective imaging findings. |
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spelling | pubmed-105281252023-09-28 Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications Masselli, Gabriele Bonito, Giacomo Gigli, Silvia Ricci, Paolo Diagnostics (Basel) Review Emergency imaging in pregnancy and puerperium poses unique challenges both for clinicians and radiologists, requiring timely and accurate diagnosis. Delay in treatment may result in poor outcomes for both the patient and the foetus. Pregnant and puerperal patients may present in the emergency setting with acute abdominopelvic pain for various complications that can be broadly classified into obstetric and non-obstetric related diseases. Ultrasonography (US) is the primary diagnostic imaging test; however, it may be limited due to the patient’s body habitus and the overlapping of bowel loops. Computed tomography (CT) carries exposure to ionising radiation to the foetus, but may be necessary in selected cases. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable complement to US in the determination of the etiology of acute abdominal pain and can be used in most settings, allowing for the identification of a broad spectrum of pathologies with a limited protocol of sequences. In this second section, we review the common non-obstetric causes for acute abdominopelvic pain in pregnancy and post partum, offering a practical approach for diagnosis and pointing out the role of imaging methods (US, MRI, CT) with the respective imaging findings. MDPI 2023-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10528125/ /pubmed/37761275 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13182909 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Masselli, Gabriele Bonito, Giacomo Gigli, Silvia Ricci, Paolo Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications |
title | Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications |
title_full | Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications |
title_fullStr | Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications |
title_full_unstemmed | Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications |
title_short | Imaging of Acute Abdominopelvic Pain in Pregnancy and Puerperium—Part II: Non-Obstetric Complications |
title_sort | imaging of acute abdominopelvic pain in pregnancy and puerperium—part ii: non-obstetric complications |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10528125/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761275 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13182909 |
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